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News, Missoula NewsMissoula Newshttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/imager/b/rss/808579/59f3/adminIcon_missoula.jpg144144Oregon activist Leonard Higgins shares the story of how he shut down oil for a dayhttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/IndyBlog/archives/2016/12/08/oregon-activist-leonard-higgins-shares-the-story-of-how-he-shut-down-oil-for-a-day
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Cutting the chain took about eight minutes. As he struggled with the bolt cutters, Leonard Higgins worried the cops might arrive before he could finish his job.…
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:38:00 -0700Missoula NewsUM to start ranking programs—and cutting losseshttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/firing-squad/Content?oid=3273951
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Five years ago, Robert Dickeson was invited to give a presentation at the University of Montana. Dickeson, a former college president, CEO and consultant, spoke about a concept, which he developed, that has become both influential and controversial in the world of higher education.…
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:10:00 -0700Missoula NewsWith the Dakota Access pipeline tabled by the Corps, what's next at Standing Rock?http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/etc/Content?oid=3273956
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Fireworks over Standing Rock. That was the unexpected scene on Dec. 4 as the site of months of pain and frustration transformed into jubilee.…
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:07:00 -0700Missoula NewsCould Denise Juneau do what Royce Engstrom didn't?http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/change-of-course/Content?oid=3273958
http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/change-of-course/Content?oid=3273958Dan Brooks
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Royce Engstrom has had one heck of a year. In January, the board of regents gave the embattled University of Montana president a raise, even though plummeting enrollment forced him to enact layoffs throughout the school.…
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:06:00 -0700Missoula NewsIn a climate of hate emboldened, the LGBTQ community practices self-defensehttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/fighting-back/Content?oid=3273949
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Fourteen people watch while a Missoula Taekwondo Center instructor demonstrates how to fend off a rapist at the Worth the Fight seminar Dec. 3."If somebody is holding you down and they're in the mount position, and you do not want penetration to happen, you really only have to, on average, move your hips this far," says instructor Amanda Rosbarsky. She holds her hands about four inches apart.…
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:06:00 -0700Missoula NewsWhy journalism—and good news—will be more important than ever in Trump's Americahttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/controlling-the-story/Content?oid=3273960
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Most people who pass through Raton, New Mexico, on I-25 are bound for elsewhere. Ever since Raton's coal mines went bust there hasn't been much to draw tourists or new residents.…
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsStart School Later wants to... well, it's pretty obvious what Start School Later wantshttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/punching-the-clock/Content?oid=3273955
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The science says yes. Will Missoula Public Schools?
Most Missoula high school students are expected to be at their desks and ready to learn at 7:50 a.m.and that's bad for teens, according to proponents of a new plan to push the bell back. Jennie Dixon, head of the local chapter of Start School Later, is a big advocate of the health benefits of adequate sleep.…
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsThe Interior Dept. just delivered $270 million in buy-back offers to consolidate Blackfeet reservation land in tribal handshttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/real-estate/Content?oid=3273953
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Nearly four years to the day after the landmark Cobell settlement won final approval, one of the agreement's key tenets came to fruition in the Blackfeet Nation. The Department of the Interior on Nov. 28 extended more than $270 million in purchase offers to reservation landowners.…
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsBackcountry Hunters and Anglers proposes a Quiet Waters Initiativehttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/the-river-front/Content?oid=3273952
http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/the-river-front/Content?oid=3273952Alex Sakariassen
Five years ago, the Clark Fork became the focal point of a brief but tense back-and-forth over recreational access. Increasing conflicts between high-speed motorboats and non-motorized users prompted state officials to revisit regulations governing the river below its confluence with the Blackfoot.…
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsAfter six years of growth, Missoula's curling scene is ready for an ice place to call home.http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/no-stone-unthrown/Content?oid=3273680
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"Sweep!" The word echoes repeatedly through airspace between ice and corrugated metal, followed occasionally by the harsh crack of polished granite stones colliding.…
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsBetter Westside Projecthttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/LettersToTheEditor/archives/2016/12/07/better-westside-project
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<p>I am disappointed by the Forest Service's decision to continue full speed ahead on the Westside Project without taking the time to consider easy and economical compromises that would generate agreement among a broader range of stakeholders and embrace the tenet of collaboration supported by the Western Governors' Association and Gov. Steve Bullock. </p>…
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Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:18:00 -0700Missoula NewsSupport for the Smithhttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/LettersToTheEditor/archives/2016/12/07/support-for-the-smith
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<p>To start, I'd like to say that I really enjoy the outdoors. Hiking, floating, fishing, camping, etc. The Smith River is used by many people, not only Montanans, for all these reasons.…
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Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:17:00 -0700Missoula NewsBlocked in Buttehttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/LettersToTheEditor/archives/2016/12/07/blocked-in-butte
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<p>As many know, our neighbors in Butte have suffered a recent setback as they work toward an effective remediation of the Berkeley Pit. That setback is not a concrete loss, but a semantic one—a statement from Atlantic Richfield's lawyer Kyle Gray asserting that public access to ongoing litigation would "make settlement pretty much impossible."</p>…
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Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:15:00 -0700Missoula NewsEngstrom resigns, Stearns named interim UM presidenthttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/IndyBlog/archives/2016/12/01/engstrom-resigns-stearns-named-interim-um-president
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After six years of falling enrollment and cutbacks, with further budgetary and academic uncertainty roiling campus this fall, University of Montana President Royce Engstrom will resign effective Dec. 31, the state's Commissioner of Higher Education said Thursday.<br>
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Commissioner Clayton Christian announced Engstrom's departure in a morning email to campus, stating that he asked Engstrom "to consider this transition at this time based on my belief that a change in leadership direction is the right step for UM going forward." An hour later, the state announced in a follow-up email that Christian's predecessor as higher education commissioner, Sheila Stearns, would take over as interim president while a national search is conducted.…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:19:00 -0700Missoula NewsOne job, one vote?http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/one-job-one-vote/Content?oid=3262811
http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/one-job-one-vote/Content?oid=3262811Dan Brooks
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Former legislator/area crank Ed Butcher wants to limit the franchise to the employed. Dan Brooks has a problem with that
Late last month, in keeping with its policy of publishing only those opinions submitted in writing, the Missoulian ran a guest column by former Montana legislator Ed Butcher. In it, Butcher complained that the thousands of demonstrators protesting the election of Donald Trump were “obviously not working for a living.”
“These are primarily ‘welfare bums,’” he wrote, “college students (is that redundant?)…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsWho’s calling the shots on Missoula’s gun ordinance?http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/loaded-question/Content?oid=3262444
http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/loaded-question/Content?oid=3262444Derek Brouwer
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Emails appear to show AG's office carrying gun lobby's water
A little more than a year ago, with the Missoula City Council about to hold its first public hearing on a proposal to expand background checks for gun purchases, the state’s top cop delivered a clear message to local officials: Back off. In a one-sentence press release, Attorney General Tim Fox wrote that “contrary to the opinion of the City Attorney, whom I respect,” he believed the ordinance would violate state law.…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsPanic attack at UMhttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/threat-what-threat/Content?oid=3262442
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Loose words from Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian send campus into a tizzy
Just before Thanksgiving break at the University of Montana, comments by state officials published in the Missoulian sent faculty into a frenzy. Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian and his deputy commissioner for communications, Kevin McRae, told the newspaper they “expected and hoped” UM would continue reducing staff, lest the state have to intervene itself.…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsEngen's returnhttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/etc/Content?oid=3262437
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The mayor comes back from rehab to a warm welcome — and some awkward questions
The old adage holds that Americans prefer to vote for the candidate they’d most like to have a beer with. Here in Montana, we’re often granted that opportunity.…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsMarsy’s Law means moneyhttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/dept-of-unintended-consequences/Content?oid=3262436
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Adding up the unintended costs of Montana's newest constitutional amendment
A new voter-approved constitutional amendment means that businesses—say, Walmart—can now be considered crime victims, and so must be notified of each and every court proceeding involving, say, a misdemeanor shoplifting case. That’s how Missoula City Attorney Jim Nugent interprets CI-116, also known as Marsy’s Law for Montana.A new voter-approved constitutional amendment means that businesses—say, Walmart—can now be considered crime victims, and so must be notified of each and every court proceeding involving, say, a misdemeanor shoplifting case.…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsWestside project barrels aheadhttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/timber-chronicles/Content?oid=3262435
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Bitterroot Forest supervisor says the Westside Collaborative Vegetation Management Project is moving forward despite objections
Nearly five months have passed since the twin forces of wildfire and litigation began to converge on a controversial timber project on the Bitterroot National Forest. Plans to hand-thin tracts west of Hamilton this fall were rendered moot by the Roaring Lion blaze, and forest supervisor Julie King says if it weren’t for an active lawsuit, commercial logging components would likely already have gone out to bid.…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsPoaching by the numbershttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/poaching-by-the-numbers/Content?oid=3262432
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How often do hunting violations actually get prosecuted?
On Nov. 1, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks finally closed the book on yet another major poaching investigation in western Montana. The last of nine men connected to the illegal shooting of at least 15 deer and one cow elk since 2013 was sentenced in Flathead County Justice Court, bringing the fines and restitution secured in the case to $16,425.…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsIll treatmenthttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/ill-treatment/Content?oid=3262414
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Patients—and a watchdog group’s lawsuit—say inmates in Montana’s mental health facilities are subject to inhumane treatment
The fire sprinkler burst, showering rust-colored water all over the cell. Ryan Bragg had “popped it,” in his words, out of frustration that the sink had been shut off in his room at the Galen Forensic Mental Health Facility.…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:00:00 -0700Missoula NewsSpeaking up about assaulthttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/LettersToTheEditor/archives/2016/12/01/speaking-up-about-assault
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<p>Please bear with me and read to the end. Sexual assault is not a topic I'm thrilled to discuss.…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:58:00 -0700Missoula NewsFaking Lefthttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/LettersToTheEditor/archives/2016/12/01/faking-left
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<p>Dan Brooks, I mistook you for a progressive. Blaming the Democratic Party for the election of Donald Trump ("Filling a void," Nov. 17) excuses the real culprit: the uninformed electorate.…
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Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:58:00 -0700Missoula NewsHomeland hysteriahttp://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/homeland-hysteria/Content?oid=3263895
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The lessons we learned from 'alien' detention at Fort Missoula
Donald Trump said during his presidential campaign that he wants both surveillance of Muslims residing in the United States and a registry to track who and where they are. And he definitely doesn't want any more Muslims let into this country.…
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